Engineers Have anyone seen an Engineer base in a daylight?

DrakeAurum

DrakeAurum
MalcYorks said:
Yes but I was referring to the situation if the planet was tidally locked therefore as it moved round it's orbit the orientation with respect to the star would be constant. Of course the moon would have to be in a circumpolar orbit I suppose and I don't know how possible this combination might be, my maths isn't up to it these days (if it ever was!) but I suspect gravitationally it wouldn't work. Naturally the moon wouldn't be tidally locked I suppose but that wasn't what I was referring to.
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The point is, the moon's orbit doesn't care whether the planet is tidally locked or not. Whether the planet is spinning like a top or not rotating at all, it's just a fixed source of gravity as far as the moon is concerned.
 

AJW

AJW
MalcYorks said:
Yes but I was referring to the situation if the planet was tidally locked therefore as it moved round it's orbit the orientation with respect to the star would be constant. Of course the moon would have to be in a circumpolar orbit I suppose and I don't know how possible this combination might be, my maths isn't up to it these days (if it ever was!) but I suspect gravitationally it wouldn't work. Naturally the moon wouldn't be tidally locked I suppose but that wasn't what I was referring to.
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Whether the moon is tidally locked or not makes no difference. And neither does whether the planet is tidally locked to the star. The axis of rotation of the moon will point in the same direction (relative to the galaxy - or more strictly, relative to the universe as a whole) regardless of where it is in orbit.
 

goemon

goemon
have seen qwents base and dwellers base in daylight. i guess, one could check their planets rotation and day and night cycle.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
DrakeAurum said:
The point is, the moon's orbit doesn't care whether the planet is tidally locked or not. Whether the planet is spinning like a top or not rotating at all, it's just a fixed source of gravity as far as the moon is concerned.
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AJW said:
Whether the moon is tidally locked or not makes no difference. And neither does whether the planet is tidally locked to the star. The axis of rotation of the moon will point in the same direction (relative to the galaxy - or more strictly, relative to the universe as a whole) regardless of where it is in orbit.
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Yes, I stand corrected, sorry (brain fade I think). :eek:
 

AH_ImADot

AH_ImADot
People tend to play the game around the same times of the day, like after work or before going to bed. I'm not at all surprised that many planetary bodies would seem to always be either light or dark to many people, depending on when they are playing.
 

jacozilla

jacozilla
AH_ImADot said:
People tend to play the game around the same times of the day, like after work or before going to bed. I'm not at all surprised that many planetary bodies would seem to always be either light or dark to many people, depending on when they are playing.
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ummm...even assuming the day cycle in-game was 1:1 to real life, you're assuming every system has the same stellar GMT as any given location on Earth, which of course they don't.

Someone who usually plays around 7pm GMT -8 would be exposed to just as many random day/night cycles as someone laying at 7am GMT -8 , depending on whatever system and body rotation period they were visiting.
 
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